I'm going to have to go with gerbick on this. I assumed, wrongly it seems, that the council had the ear of Nokia to put forth issues important to the community.

Being as this community is made up of a diverse group, I assumed this meant some of those issues would be ones important to the consumer/enduser type of person. In reality, the council is more concerned with the developer portion of the community. Debmasters, webmasters, sponsorships to meetings, loaner devices, etc, all things more important to developers as opposed to users.

I appreciate what the council tries to do. Recently, the letter about python, in theory, this should eventually help the consumer, through trickle-down. A letter about MyNokia, with a canned legal response.

As I write this, I think, what did the council expect to happen with the letter about MyNokia? From what I've read in this thread, that is far outside the scope of what they (and Quim) think they should be working on. It seems like they could write letters on a variety of subjects (Flash, support issues, MeeGo, etc) that are obviously important to the consumer as well. Sure it may have only resulted in a PR response, but at least the council could say "look we made an effort" (at least as much as they did for MyNokia).

So, from what I've seen expressed, I'll stand on the fact the I don't believe the council should represent me, and as such, I shouldn't vote. Much like being a US citizen, I shouldn't be voting for Canadian stuff.